Bern

In the twilight, contours disappear, but what is bright appears even brighter. This was also the case on the latest evening of the Bern Ballett, which lets "twilights" flicker, three to be exact. The dancing takes place in the fog, in the dim backlight, with too much bass and a monotonous beat, to ominously threatening violins and sounds of longing. That's the problem. On this evening, with pieces by the Italian Marioenrico D'Angelo, the Canadian Lesley Telford, and the Chinese Xie Xi, I try to imagine how the movements would appear if they weren't so driven by booming basses, spherical sounds, and minimalist two-tone chords in which Gustav Mahler's fragment of the Piano Quartet in A minor gets lost. That's easy to say about the first piece of the evening. In Night Shining Clouds, ...